What is a cookie?
It is a file that is downloaded to your computer or other device when you access certain web pages that collect information about your browsing on that website. In some cases cookies are necessary to facilitate navigation and allow storing and retrieving information about the browsing habits of a user or their equipment, among other things and, depending on the information they contain and the way you use your computer, can be used to recognize the user.
Identification of cookies used
Following the guidelines established by the Spanish Data Protection Agency, the cookies used on this website are classified as follows:
- Own Cookies: These are those that are sent to the user’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain managed by the editor itself and from which the service requested by the user is provided.
- Third-party cookies: These are those that are sent to the user’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain that is not managed by the editor, but by another entity that processes the data obtained through the cookies.
- Session Cookies: They collect and store data while the user accesses a web page.
- Persistent Cookies: They are those that have an expiration period of a maximum of 2 years from the date of creation, which means that during that time the data will continue to be stored in the terminal, being able to be accessed and treated.
- Technical Cookies: Allow the user to navigate through a web page, platform or application and the use of the different options or services that exist in it.
- Customization Cookies: Allow the user to access the service with some general features predefined according to a number of criteria in the user’s terminal such as would be the language, the type of browser through which you access the service, the locale from which you access the service, etc..
- Analysis Cookies: These cookies allow the party responsible for them to monitor and analyze the behavior of the users of the websites to which they are linked. The information collected through this type of cookies is used to measure the activity of the websites, application or platform and for the elaboration of browsing profiles of the users of such sites, applications and platforms, in order to introduce improvements based on the analysis of the usage data of the users of the service.
The following table shows the own and third party cookies of the website www.wearewater.org and the purpose for which each one is used.
| OWN COOKIES | ||
|---|---|---|
| COOKIE | PURPOSE | FUNCTIONALITY AFFECTED IN CASE OF DEACTIVATION |
| ASPSESSIONIDSATQCADR | Used to identify the session by the application server. | No functionality would be affected by uninstalling the cookie. |
| languageCookie | Used to preserve the user’s language preference. | It will not keep the navigation language set by the user. |
(1) Allow tracking of the website through the Google Analytics tool, which is a service provided by Google to obtain information on user access to websites. Google, Inc. a Delaware company whose principal office is at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View (California), CA 94043, United States. Some of the data stored for further analysis are: the number of times the user has visited the website, dates of the user’s first and last visit, duration of visits, page from which the user has accessed the website, the search engine the user has used to reach the website or link the user has selected, location in the world from which the user accesses the website, etc. The configuration of these cookies is predetermined by the service offered by Google, which is why we suggest you consult the privacy page of Google Analytics, http://www.google.com/intl/es/analytics/privacyoverview.html and https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage for more information on the cookies it uses and how to disable them (on the understanding that we are not responsible for the content or accuracy of third-party websites). |
Disabling cookies
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Disabling or deleting cookies belonging to Google Analytics
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